"South Carolina Republican Sen. James Demint called the decision [overturning California's Prop. 8] "another attempt to impose a secular immorality on the American people who keep voting to preserve traditional marriage."
And for the rest of normal, decent, law-abiding, tolerant society on Planet Reality, that's a bad thing... how?
With emphasis on law-abiding.
"Traditional marriage has been the foundation of civil society for centuries"
We in the UK have had Civil Partnerships for years now. It's affected the foundation of our civil society precisely this much:
Zero.
"and we cannot simply toss it aside to fit the political whims of liberal activists with gavels,"
Those 'liberal activists with gavels' are the bedrock of the foundations of civil society: The rule of law. Besides, by saying what you are, you're disobeying your very own Scripture, the literal 'Word of God'.
Do I have to remind you of Romans 13:1-7?
And last time I heard, it's your very own government who appoints Supreme Court Justices.
Unless you're prepared to completely agree with President Obama's policies and thus the decisions of said SCOTUS, then you've just punched your own one-way ticket to Hell.